A vote for ‘ bigotry’

I’ve read a lot of newspapers and watched a lot of news on my too long COVID vacation.

What I read about Bob Good, running for a congressional seat in the 5th district, his offensive comments, his shady friend, racist ex-supervisor Mr. Deane [former Greene County Supervisor Eddie Deane, described as a campaign surrogate of Good’s whose questionable 2017 video even has certain Greene County Republicans crying foul], this is the reason I’m writing to you.

To start with something positive … Cameron Webb. Here is Cameron Webb’s education, which speaks for itself. He’s obviously got a great head on his shoulders and believes in equity in education and healthcare, important stuff

Webb has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, a law degree from Loyola University Chicago, a medical degree from Wake Forest University. He served as a White House Fellow under Presidents Obama and Trump, and later worked as a physician and director of health policy and equity at the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine.

And now I’ll tell you why I’m hoping you will not vote for Bob Good, he discriminates against the LGBTQ community. I have always found people that put others down to be pretty low-class individuals.

It’s time for us to stop fighting with each other, electing Good is a vote for more ducking away from responsibility, insult throwing, arguing … the last things we need more of. It’s also a vote for bigotry. Yuck.

Also, even though the Republican party has asked him to, Good won’t denounce his partner in crime, Eddie Deane, and his outrageous racist and homophobic comments (that are caught on video).

I ask you to put yourself in the other man’s shoes and think about how you would like to be discriminated against. If you are old, young, gay, straight, black, white, handicapped ... there are plenty of types of discrimination. Bob Good discriminates against people that are different from him. We need fairness for all people, not some.

Rachel Rowland

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